[pmdulaney]

"According to a study by Harvard Business Review (HBR), inclusive leadership and work culture directly enhance performance..."

No doubt a study could be performed that would show that employment candidates who had grown up in households with two parents present are more productive than those who had grown up in single-parent families.

Would it be a good idea to favor candidates from two-parent households? No! If a candidate, despite being from a single-parent family performs better than other candidates, he or she should be hired! He or she should be treated as an individual not as the member of some group.

Similarly, diversity should be viewed as something of secondary importance. The world does not need more women in tech or more men in nursing or more X in Y. Rather, each human being needs to be treated fairly, judged based on his or her own merits.

[raxxorrax]

I am a half-orphan and I couldn't agree more. I actually would be very pissed at people that would give me preference due to that circumstance. On race too btw, although historically that were mostly negative quotas. That is bad too of course.

I know it was just an example, but there is actually some form of this "patchwork propaganda", where naive people can feel good about being so accepting of something that can be very hard work and wouldn't be the first choice of most people.

You don't need a Harvard degree to understand this to be condescending. Although that doesn't help either as it seems.